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| Author | : Elizabeth Webby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2000-08-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780521658430 |
An indispensable reference for the study of Australian literature.
| Author | : Elizabeth Webby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2000-08-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139825992 |
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times, as well as by geographical and environmental factors. It covers indigenous texts, colonial writing and reading, poetry, fiction and theatre throughout two centuries, biography and autobiography, and literary criticism in Australia. Other features of the companion are a chronology listing significant historical and literary events, and suggestions for further reading.
| Author | : Belinda Wheeler |
| Publisher | : Camden House |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1571135219 |
This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
| Author | : Ato Quayson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107132819 |
This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.
| Author | : A. D. Cousins |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2011-02-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139825399 |
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
| Author | : Gregory Claeys |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-08-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828428 |
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
| Author | : Brian Nelson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2007-02-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827278 |
Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
| Author | : Peter Hulme |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2002-11-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521786522 |
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| Author | : Morag Shiach |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2007-04-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 052185444X |
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
| Author | : Maureen N. McLane |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827901 |
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.
